doing the polka

I've been on the hunt since early December, when at a holiday party I bumped into a friend  wearing the prettiest polka dot dress. It was nipped in at the waist, with long billowy sleeves and neck ties that loosely hung down. The effect: elegant yet effortless. I couldn't place its provenance and wondered whether it was vintage. "No," my friend clarified. "It's by ME + EM." When I returned home that night I endeavored to buy the dress, but, alas, it was sold out. Since then, I’ve been stalking ME +EM for dresses that similarly effect polished but not precious, and I recently scored with the print, lace-trimmed skirt-and-blouse team and gathered-sleeve white dress, both of which can work on holidays abroad or at out and about at home, along with this exact-fit of the polka dot pretty but in solid black (woo hoo)! Wouldn’t mind adding a few more–this and this–to my new spring line-up, too. This post is in paid partnership with ME + EM.